• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    YouTube probably isn’t worried about open source competition, but Twitch could be a real competitor. Twitch already captured a large chunk of gaming, especially the live streams.

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      Twitch could have massively ate into YouTube if they wanted, but they must have decided it wasn’t worth the cost to host videos.

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        Twitch would need a lot of work to make videos more first class citizens, that is probably more the reason than storage costs. They have Amazon backing them now with basically unlimited storage potential.